Bates Smart believes in its individuals. We support cultural and gender diversity and aim to provide all of our employees with a challenging and exciting work environment. We strive to invest in our people and to bring out individual talents. We build trust and foster strong working relationships. We want to be the place where you want to work.

Professional/Career Development

Bates Smart is currently engaged in a number of exciting projects. We provide a supportive office structure and offer a number of benefits to our staff. Working with us means having the opportunity for long-term career development, as we provide:

Variety of work to suit different interests, experience and goals, as well as the opportunity for individuals to move between different types of projects within the office

Use of Revit as our key documentation platform, offering staff the opportunity to develop and enhance their Revit skills across a number of project stages

Training and development opportunities in the form of both in-house and external training courses and seminars. Many of our employees have had training in Revit, Photoshop, MS Project, Business Writing and Green Star. We are always open to suggestions!

The opportunity to mentor, or to be mentored, as part of our formal mentoring program.

Work and Family

Bates Smart understands that when it comes to employment, many people are seeking a better balance between their work and family life. We appreciate that it is not always easy to juggle both and keeping this in mind, in addition to the Government Scheme we offer:

The equivalent of 1 month's salary to the primary caregiver for studio staff and 3 month's salary for Associates, Associate Directors and Studio Directors (DADA)

5 days paid leave to the non-primary caregiver for studio staff and 10 days leave for DADA

A keep in touch program for parents on leave

Options for flexible working arrangements

Access to compassionate, carers and personal leave.

Health and Wellbeing

Bates Smart wants healthy and happy employees! We know that it can be hard to find a balance between health and wellbeing and work. To combat this, we provide:

A social program that includes activities such as regular staff morning teas, a number of staff organised sports teams, Friday night drinks, bike-rides, themed-Christmas parties and many other interesting events

Funded flu vaccinations

Fresh fruit supplied to the office twice weekly.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Bates Smart believes it is important to contribute back to society. We genuinely care for our clients, employees and the wider community that we are a part of. We support this with:

Fundraising events including activities such as the Around the Bay Bike ride, the RSCPA Million Paws Walk, Movember and Ride and Walk to Work Days

A concern for the environment that embraces recycling in the workplace and offering a range of environmentally friendly office products, and extends to the way we design buildings

Ecological sustainable development (ESD) in our work methods. We also have a team of employees dedicated to championing ESD as a fundamental component in our business planning and decision making.